Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn resigned on Thursday after months of popular protests which necessitated the declaration of a state of emergency at one point but declared he would stay on until a new successor is named.
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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has issued new guidelines on global care standards throughout labour and immediately after childbirth aimed at reducing the use of needless and potentially harmful routine clinical and medical interventions.
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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Gambia Press Union (GPU) has welcomed the ruling by the Abuja-based ECOWAS Court of Justice on Wednesday that ordered the government to repeal the laws of sedition, criminal defamation, false publication on the internet and false publication and broadcasting.
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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mitsuhira Furusawa, Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), on Thursday began a working visit to Mauritania at the invitation of the Mauritanian government.
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Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The Serbian vice Prime Minister, Ivica Dacic, who is also minister of foreign affairs, on Thursday held talks with Burundi’s president Pierre Nkurunziza that centred on ways to consolidate and diversify their bilateral cooperation, Burundi’s public radio reported.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) – Gaps in data covering refugees, asylum seekers, migrants and internally displaced populations are endangering the lives and wellbeing of millions of children on the move, warned five UN and partner agencies on Thursday.
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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Liberian president George Weah arrived in Dakar on Thursday for a two-day visit to Senegal during which he and his host, Macky Sall, will sign several cooperation agreements.
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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Media watchdog, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), has called on the Gambian government to act on a judgment passed by a sub-regional court and “immediately repeal its laws on criminal libel, sedition and false news”.
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has submitted his resignation from the office of the Prime Minister and the chairman of the ruling Ethiopian People's Democratic Revolutionary Front (EPRDF), state broadcaster announced on Thursday.
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has submitted his resignation from the office of the Prime Minister and the chairman of the ruling Ethiopian People's Democratic Revolutionary Front (EPRDF), state broadcaster announced on Thursday.
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Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Dr Matshidiso Moeti, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, started her first official three-day visit to the Republic of Congo on 14 February to enhance cooperation on strengthening the country’s health system. Full text...

Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has eulogised the country's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who passed away on Wednesday in South Africa, saying he will be remembered for his insistence of free, fair, credible and peaceful elections.
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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa's official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) on Thursday joined Zimbabweans in mourning the passing of the country’s opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai.
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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Since November last year, the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has evacuated over 1,000 highly vulnerable refugees out of Libya and is looking for durable solutions for them in third countries.
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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The deportation of Kenyan-born Canadian lawyer, Miguna Miguna, was illegal, null and void because it was done in defiance of orders to surrender the lawyer before the court, the High Court in Kenya declared on Thursday.
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Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - Human rights watchdog Amnesty International (AI) said on Thursday that the successor of South African President Jacob Zuma must do everything within his or her power to ensure that the state ensures access for victims of human rights violations.
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New York, US (PANA) - Without speedy progress on gender equality and real action to end pervasive discrimination against women and girls, the global community will not be able to keep the promise to ‘leave no one behind’ on the road to ending poverty, protecting the planet and advancing prosperity by 2030, according to a new United Nations report launched on Wednesday.
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Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - In this century, child marriage cannot be allowed to happen, and similarly, children should not give birth to children, the United Nations youth envoy told an African forum on reproductive health and rights on Wednesday.
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New York, US (PANA) - The United Nations will need to focus its efforts on supporting Guinea-Bissau’s national leaders in their efforts to appoint an acceptable Prime Minister, establish an inclusive Government, organise and conduct timely elections, and implement the priority reforms, a UN envoy for the West African country said on Wednesday.
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